Jan 26, 2012

Do you believe it!!!

I have less days than some of these
Anziani have years in the mission.

But I feel like Rome has been extra good to me as a going away present.

It.
has. been. amazing.

We haven't taught as many lessons as we would have liked,
but the ones we have taught have been AMAZING. Oh my word there are some amazing
people here that I just adore.

Where do I begin? We got ahold of Teresa again, had an amazing lesson
the

re. Antonia is amazing. Everyone is amazing. Ha.

I don't even know what to
tell you.

I will tell you that I am going to miss:

Teaching about the Plan of Salvation whilst sitting on Roman aqueducts.

Try
and imagine this.

Sitting on old ruins,

the sun on our faces--even though its
January-- teaching someone almost our own age and she just goes,

"I feel inside
me that all of this is true and I just want to get closer and closer to these
things."

I was nearly in tears.

That just happened about five hours ago.

Not bad
for the last real lesson.

Tonight we just have the family night in
church.

Earlier we walked into a store and Micheal Buble's I wanna go home song was
playing and Slla Stebar just started laughing. Irony is everywhere these
days.

Last Sunday lunch=Panzarotti party

at Maria Teresa's with Uncle Stefano

and
the Brothers D'Apuzzo and Grrrreta,

aka our little family. It was so fun/funny.
Even with Stefano hovering over my shoulder trying to tell me

what to do..not
helpful.

Pictures with all the members on Sunday (I'll show you when I get home). I
didnt even cry in my last testimony. Brigette's dramatic "I hate you for leaving
and I'll never forget you!"

Fllo Perego's parting words,

"Okay, if some guy at BYU comes up and says he
had a dream that you are supposed to be his wife...Don't believe him!

It doesn't
work that way."

This AWESOME girl visiting from London came and brought her
mostly boyfriend who lives in the area of the church and he is going to start
meeting with the Anziani! She was just so cool.

Ward activities involving trying to eat pizza and play ping pong at the
same time and

playing with American children. The Italians kept harassing me to
eat and I was like,

"Can't you see I am busy here?"

Only Fllo D'Elia had the
right solution

of bringing it to me.

Our Naptan Cage Fighting Dog Groomer who is fluent in English as a Second
Language, and his son who loves singing and dancing and bought me a bell with an
owl on the top as a going away gift.

Singing on Sunday outside some stores

and Vincenzo (ward mission leader)
waving a white handkerchief at me as we sang God Be With You Til We Meet
Again.

It's amazing. I'm horribly devasted, but at the same time. SO excited.
Because, like you said mom, every transfer has brought new possibilities and
things I couldn't have even imagined. And, well, all of you are involved in this
next transfer and that's excited.

Plus, one of the members, who is usually kind of a tool actually said
something that really struck me. He was like, No, why are you sad? You have been
a good missionary. And I was like, yeah, but that's why I want to keep going, I
love it. And he was just like, No. "Il Signore ha detto basta." Which is to say,
no, the Lord said, that's enough. You're done. And it's true...I am done. Well,
not yet, but tomorrow morning I go to the office/mission home and thus ends the
days of the Sorella Laws reign in Rome.

And, I guess that's okay. That it's been enough. and I've got so many plans
for the future. Everything has a time limit of some sort. Even life
itself.

So in short, I maybe unexplicably bipolar the first few weeks back.

But it's not because I don't love you loads.

Con amore,

Sorella Laws

p.s.

Iz, thank you for the most amazing package ever all my companions were
jealous. ;)

1 comment:

Sorella Laws, I am Anziano Larsen's Mom and have so enjoyed reading your blog since I found it. Thanks for all of your great stories and pictures ( I had to steal a couple with my son in them.) I know how much you will miss your mission ( I was once a sister missionary myself). But great things await you and your faithful missionary service will now continue to bless you throughout your whole lifetime. God Bless you in the future -Tracy Larsen

You know what we're going to do, right? We're going to live like we're telling the best story in the world.

-The Brothers Bloom

We will do things that surprise others, but in our hearts we knew we could do them. -Thomas Kelly

It may seem boring, but I think the boring stuff is the stuff I remember the most.

- Russell, Up

Love is what inspired our Heavenly Father to create our spirits; it is what led our Savior to the Garden of Gethsemane to make Himself a ransom for our sins. Love is the grand motive of the plan of salvation; it is the source of happiness, the ever-renewing spring of healing, the precious fountain of hope. - Dieter F. Utchdorf